Since 2003, the United Nations has designated December 11th as “International Mountain Day” to call attention to the world about the importance of mountains to life. 

Join RBCM@ outside host Liz Crocker and John Adams, historian and owner of Discover the Past, for a virtual walk around Emily Carr’s Victoria neighbourhood. We’ll start at national historic site Carr House where artist Emily Carr was born and grew up. At Carr House we’ll meet site manager Kate Kerr for a quick chat about the significance of the house in Emily’s life.

Festive Trilobite Cookies! with Dr. Victoria Arbour

Trilobites are a completely extinct group of animals that look a little bit like today’s horseshoe crabs, and they are some of the most abundant fossils found on the planet – including in British Columbia! We’ll learn about trilobites and their fossils in British Columbia, and get into the holiday spirit by making some festive shortbread cookie versions of trilobites.

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Curator of history, Dr. Lorne Hammond will tell us (and show us) what Christmas in Victoria was like during Emily Carr's lifetime. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/92025506053

Emily Carr Inspired Art Making with Jeri Engen

To celebrate the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing, RBCM @ Home (Kids) will have three sessions over three months that will explore Emily Carr as an artist and her art making through hands-on projects.  

Session #2- Tree Painting

Using Emily Carr’s Trees in France, 1911 as inspiration, we will explore Carr’s use of abstraction through colour and movement to create a painting of an Arbutus tree from our region.

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Grab some holiday baking and a cup of good cheer and join  Provincial Carillonneur Rosemary Laing who will use photos and videos to teach us about the carillon. At the end she'll play a carol from her piano and we can all carol-along from home.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/97419222096

The sights and sounds of Christmas long ago. Visit the wood-cobbled streets laced with festive garlands and see the shops decked with seasonal finery. And explore more of the museum with a family friendly Father Christmas Escape Room

Join Learning Program Developer Liz Crocker and CRD Cultural Programmer Leslie McGarry from the Kwakwaka’wakw - Kwagiulth First Nation as we explore the forest of Mill Hill Regional Park from an Indigenous perspective. We invite you to take a virtual walk with us to discover how Indigenous Peoples gather various plants, bark and leaves for a multitude of purposes, while maintaining a harmonious sense of relationship to everything around them.

Making Paper Cranes with Laura Minta Holland

Join artist-educator Laura Minta Holland and learn how to make your own origami crane.

This workshop is inspired by the Japanese practice of senbazuru , folding 1000 cranes in hopes of having one wish granted. Most often this is in relation to happiness, luck, recovery from illness or injury.

Six institutions, six perspectives, six works, one question: Which piece by Emily Carr has shifted and deepened your thinking most about Carr’s influence and impact?

The Exploration Place in Prince George is a vibrant museum and science centre with a focus on local history and hands-on science. Our hosts Chad Hellenius and Lisa Connor will share highlights of the centre and how they've adapted during Covid-19. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/97537944726

The Royal BC Museum is filled with specimens of animals of all kinds. Some are big and some are small. Some are furry and some are scaly. Some have two legs, and some have six. Some can be found deep in the ocean and some high up in trees. 

For this session we’ll read a book about animals, then look at a few of the animals within our museum collection and sketch them.

Get your paper and pencil ready for a wild journey among the wild animals of BC.

Curator of art and images, Dr. India Young will present highlights from the Royal BC Museum’s collection that illustrate the impact of Emily Carr on modernist painters in British Columbia, during and after her time. The live lecture will be through Zoom and your ticket includes access to the recording. 

Land-Based Learning with Jess Housty

Join author Jess Housty as she shares personal stories and cultural knowledge about the land that she lives on and the community that she is surrounded by.

Canadian War Sites in Europe
In this armchair travel extravaganza Paul Ferguson, history collection manager at the Royal BC Museum and a war historian, will give his dream itinerary of Canadian war sites in Europe including where to stay and maybe even what to eat. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/91532657826

Curator emerita Dr. Kathryn Bridge will highlight some of Emily Carr's archival material and what it reveals to us about her art, her time and her thinking. Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing - Modernism and the West Coast is on now until January 24, 2021. 

Detail from BC Archives PDP06069

Link to join Webinar
https://zoom.us/j/97973608440 

Emily Carr Inspired Art Making with Jeri Engen

To celebrate the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing, RBCM @ Home (Kids) will have three sessions over three months that will explore Emily Carr as an artist and her art making through hands-on projects.  

Session #1- Postcards

Come along to the Museum of Vancouver and learn about their new exhibition A Seat at the Table , an exhibit that explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. Our guide with be the Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Curator of Contemporary Culture Viviane Gosselin. 

Join learning program developer and RBCM@Outside host Liz Crocker and Dr. Gavin Hanke, curator of vertebrate zoology, for a 30-minute dive into iNaturalist to learn how you can add your voice to science. The Royal BC Museum recently joined iNaturalist, a global online resource to document nature. We use iNaturalist for our own research and also to contribute our expertise in identifying the flora and fauna of BC and other parts of the world.

Discover the unique social history of a remarkable place. Join filmmaker and author David R. Gray as he discussed his book Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet.  From the original inhabitants from the Tsartlip First Nation to the lost community of immigrant workers from China and India, from a company town to the development of parkland, the wealth of history in this rich area reflects much of the history of the entire province.